pregen

Prefixed ID Generator

Basing this distributed ID generator off of MongoDB's ObjectId

The ObjectId consists of the following:

• A timestamp measured in seconds - 4 bytes

• A random value generated from a cryptographically random number generator. The value is unique to the machine - 5 bytes

• An incrementing counter. Initialized to a random value - 2 bytes

Those elements will combine to generate a 11-byte unique ID from which a prefix can be added e.g.